PY4E exercise chapter6 strings

- Exercise 1: Write a while loop that starts at the last character in the string and works its way backwards to the first character in the string, printing each letter on a separate line, except backwards.

cha=input('Enter a word:')
index=len(cha)-1
while index>=0:
    letter=cha[index]
    print(letter)
    index =index-1

- Exercise 3: Encapsulate this code in a function named count, and generalize it so that it accepts the string and the letter as arguments.

word=input('Enter a word:')
letter=input('Enter a letter:')

def count(word,letter):
    jishu=0
    for ci in word:
        if letter is ci:
            jishu=jishu+1
    print(jishu)

count(word,letter)

- Exercise 4: Write an invocation that counts the number of times the letter a occurs in “banana”.

fruit="banana"
print(fruit.count('a'))

- Exercise 5: Take the following Python code that stores a string:

str = ‘X-DSPAM-Confidence:0.8475’

Use find and string slicing to extract the portion of the string after the colon character and then use the float function to convert the extracted string into a floating point number.

str = 'X-DSPAM-Confidence:0.8475'
zhao=str.find("0")
print(zhao)
dao=str[zhao:]
print(float(dao))